The ringleader of the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro ship will be expelled from Italy to Syria, the Associated Press reports. Youssef Magied al-Molqui has served only 23 years of his 30-year jail sentence for his role in the hijacking and murder of wheelchair-bound Jewish passenger Leon Klinghoffer.

Italys Attorney General Gianfranco Pagano said that Molqui was to be flown on Saturday from his holding cell in Sicily to Rome and then onto Damascus.

Molqui's claim that he should not be expelled due to his marriage to an Italian citizen was rejected by an Italian court. Nor did his claim to being stateless - he is a descendant of Arabs who fled pre-state Israel - prevent his expulsion order.

Guess what, folks? Palestinian Authority chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, considered a "moderate" by Israel and the good ole' USA, masterminded the Achille Lauro terrorist attack. Can a leopard change his spots?

I can hardly believe that he’s still a LIVE man walking. He should be dead. This is what occurred with araRATfink. He self-appoints himself as leader of the terrorist palis & immediately the world grants him legitimacy. He should have been dead long before he finally croaked. Now another terrorist is legitimized by the world. Damn! Doesn’t anyone have this murderer in their gun sight?

Avi,
I’m surprised Israeli secret service didn’t off all involved in the Achille Lauro.
Though he was an American he was killed because he was a Jew.
American secret service folks wait for their pensions and do nothing and were not ever expected to do a thing even though it was an American citizen.
ALL involved should have been dead a few decades ago.

The American Secret Service didn’t do anything precisely because he was a Jew. Just look at our Arabist US State Department for the nod against Jews. They love for some reason anything Arab and are against anything for Jews. Look at Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, Jimmah, Hittlery. and go back even to the early and mid 20th Century and you will find Arab sympathy vs. Jewish condemnation for just about anything.

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